{"id":69,"date":"2003-06-19T13:06:19","date_gmt":"2003-06-19T17:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2003-06-19T13:06:19","modified_gmt":"2003-06-19T17:06:19","slug":"a-great-place-to-be-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/19\/a-great-place-to-be-from\/","title":{"rendered":"a great place to be *from* &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Bit of background here. I&#8217;m Scottish, but I live in Toronto. Canada is big, Scotland isn&#8217;t.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s this thing I like to call <b>The East Dunbartonshire Conspiracy<\/b>. I used to live in Kirkintilloch in East Dunbartonshire. It&#8217;s a small central Scotland town, rapidly becoming another suburb of Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p>Since coming to Canada, most of the expat Scots I have met are from East Dunbartonshire:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The LCBO guy in Toronto Union Station is from Kirkintilloch, about 100m from where we used to live.\n<li>Another LCBO guy on the Danforth is from Bishopbriggs, where I used to work.\n<li>The GO Train customer relations person who called me about the new proposed train station at the end of our street (yay!) grew up in Bishopbriggs, and has relatives I think I worked with when I was at Collins, the publishers.\n<\/ul>\n<p>So what&#8217;s this all about? Why are so many people leaving East Dunbartonshire for Toronto? Is it the horror of living at 56&deg;N, with dark, windy wet winters? Who can say?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Bit of background here. I&#8217;m Scottish, but I live in Toronto. Canada is big, Scotland isn&#8217;t.] There&#8217;s this thing I like to call The East Dunbartonshire Conspiracy. I used to live in Kirkintilloch in East Dunbartonshire. It&#8217;s a small central Scotland town, rapidly becoming another suburb of Glasgow. Since coming to Canada, most of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[479,328,1322,161,1199,306,168,43],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of-scrusstxt","category-general","tag-glasgow","tag-kirkintilloch","tag-lcbo","tag-rain","tag-scotland","tag-scots","tag-scottish","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-17","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}